Bradford White Indirect Water Heater

An appliance for supplying hot water for purposes other than space heating or pool heating.

Water heating is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and space heating. In industry, both hot water and water heated to steam have many uses.

United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752)

William (1590–1657), American religious and colonial leader. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620 and governor of Plymouth Colony sporadically from 1621 until 1656 (1621–32, 1635, 1637, 1639–43, 1645–56)

Bradford were a skinhead indie band from Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The band is best known for being liked by Morrissey who proclaimed them heirs to the Smiths throne. They also have the accolade of being the first band ever to release a self-financed single on CD, “Skin Storm” in 1988.

The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth and garnished with an olive. Over the years, the martini has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages. H. L. Mencken once called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," and E. B.

being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"

whiten: turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

#361: Indirect Window Lighting/Class Assignment

Even though I have my nieces in town, I have a big assignment due Tuesday for my Outdoor and Ambient Lighting Photography class. This assignment asks us to shoot something in indirect light coming from a window. We are supposed to use the light to sculpt shape and define form. I've gotten myself into another class where the professor only really likes gritty urban scenes, so he was very "meh" about my twilight lighting pictures which featured scenes at Sonoma. For instance on the shot of a lit stone staircase leading up to a Sonoma twilight featuring outlined Cypress and oaks, he thought I should have put a pair of red high heels on the stairs as the picture, to him, was a staircase to nowhere.

Well, I'm having a hard time finding something gritty and urban to take into my house and photograph by a window, so these cowboy boot salt and pepper shakers (given to us by Noe and Drive) will have to do. Our latest reading has been all about the difficulties of lighting and shooting metal surfaces, so I hope I get some credit for trying that out.

Thor Powered Indirect 01

I took this picture, and the following three pictures, of the tug "Thor" while inbound on the Houston Ship Channel aboard a large crude oil tanker. Currently, an escort tug is require on all vessels with a draft in excess of 40'.

On this particular, we had very little traffic to meet, so the conning pilot decided to take the opportunity to "practice" some emergency manuevers with the tug. This particular manuever is referred to as a "Powered Indirect" whereby the tug essentially, drive into his line. The manuever is used to either control or initiate the "swing rate" (how fast a ship turns) of a ship.